Nonsense. Ussher was an archbishop and later primate of the Church of Ireland, not a ‘mathematician’, and he derived that date from adding up the ages of the genealogies in the Bible and setting them against a few other known dates from ancient history.
According to a Pew research survey, about half of American Christians take the view that mankind is only a few thousand years old, whether or not they also adopt the view that the earth is also only a few thousand years old. Blaming the atheists for the prevalence of biblical literalism is just silly, and I think shows some serious bigotry and cluelessness on your part.
You’re free to dismiss that kind of literalism if you want to, but if you are unaware of how common it is, you might need to get out more. And if you think only atheists read the text that way, you may need to get out more. Most atheists wouldn’t even care if the young earthers weren’t trying to get their crap taught in biology classes.
I’m also unclear how simply taking the text at its word is a ‘faulty translation technique’, but whatever.
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